A 7-week-old baby is being treated for skull fractures and a brain bleed after she was hit in the head by a softball while watching her father play in northeastern Iowa.

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Authorities say the overthrown softball struck McKenna Hovenga and her mom, Kassy, as they watched the game Wednesday in Shell Rock, some 95 miles northeast of Des Moines. McKenna’s father, Lee Hovenga, was playing in the game.

McKenna was taken to a local hospital then flown to St. Mary’s Hospital at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

A post on the Healing for McKenna Facebook page said that after 48 hours without a seizure, doctors have started to wean McKenna off her seizure medication. A neurologist told the family that McKenna’s brain activity is calming down.

Hundreds of thousands of people are following the infant's progress on the Healing for McKenna Facebook page.

Her family hopes her situation will bring awareness to other babies who are struggling.

"While we cannot possibly express our sincere gratefulness for the outpouring of prayers on McKenna's behalf, we humbly ask for a bit more," a post on the Facebook page reads. "When you are all lifting McKenna up, could you please say a prayer for all the little ones in [pediatric intensive care unit]s across the nation? We might not know their names or their stories, but our fears are also being lived out by every single one of those families right now. Mayo's PICU is full of babies and young children fighting some very hard battles. Please remember them all in your prayers as you pray for our girl. And know that we are doing the same. God bless each and every one of you."

Those who wish to donate to McKenna's recovery can do so through the family's YouCaring website.